Message-ID: <4b765a4a-72d9-bd54-0bee-92c876787b89@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-09-13T09:24:22Z
From: Tomas Kalibera
Subject: Printing chinese characters (UTF-8) on R 3.5.2 -windows 10
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On 9/13/19 11:01 AM, IAGO GIN? V?ZQUEZ wrote:
> I have a chinese character on a data frame, but the output of printing it is its UTF-8 code. Concretely, the character is ? and the code is U+6703. Following the code I arrive to the instruction
>
>> base::format.default("?")
> which prints
>
> [1] "<U+6703>"
>
> I do not know which is the extent of this behaviour either if it follows on most recent versions of R.
>
> Is it expected?
If you are running this on Windows in an encoding where the character
cannot be represented (e.g. non-Chinese locale), then yes, this is
expected behavior.
On Unix systems where R can run in UTF-8 encoding (Linux, macOS), the
character will be formatted/displayed properly.
Best
Tomas
>
> Thank you!
>
> Iago
>
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